Ethics and Perinatology

Description

The rapid development of new technology used in obstetrics and neonatology has been accompanied by new moral problems presented by the choices this technology generates. Ethics and Perinatology is a timely examination of the moral problems caused by clinical and research practices in perinatology. 14 major issues are each addressed by a leading clinician whose writing is then critically reviewed by a medical ethicist, a legal theorist, or an economist. Thus each chapter embodies the independent perspectives of international experts from different disciplines. This book offers a new approach to the presentation of ideas in medical ethics concerning obstetrics and perinatology that will benefit all physicians, nurses, philosophers, and medical ethicists, as well as the
interested lay reader.

Ethics and Perinatology

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: A Thematic Overview2. Maternal-fetal Conflicts: Ethical and Policy Issues3. Futile Treatment: Decision-making in the Context of Probabilility and Uncertainty4. Quality of Life as a Decision-making criterion5. The Use of Epidemiological Data for Prognostication and Decision-making6. Withholding and Withdrawing Therapy and Actively Hastening Death7. Organ Transplantation8. The Boundary Between Therapeutic and Non-therapeutic Research9. Informed Consent10. Government Regulations in the United States11. Government Regulations in the United Kingdom12. The Economics of Perinatal Care in the United States13. The Economics of Perinatal Care in the United Kingdom14. Pediatric Nursing
Ethics15. Religious Influences on Decision-making